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“A very little key will open a very heavy door” (Charles Dickens, Hunted Down)
Taking on robot vision
An article about a startup working on robot vision may offer ways to enhance robot capabilities in industry.Main point: As important as the manual abilities of robots are, they need the ability to properly see their environments before they can take a...
Follow your guide
It looks like progress on the assistive technology front with Google's Project Guideline, "an artificial intelligence system designed to help blind and vision-impaired people to run races by themselves." Main point: It's "an attempt to give those people more...
Memorial to a Forgotten Astronaut
Via Instapundit and Parabolic Arc: From Mojave, it’s a drive of nearly 50 miles through the sagebrush and Joshua trees, around dry Koehn Lake, and through the old mining towns of Randsburg and Johannesburg before you reach the unmarked dirt road leading to the site. A...
Memorial to a Forgotten Astronaut
Via Instapundit and Parabolic Arc: From Mojave, it’s a drive of nearly 50 miles through the sagebrush and Joshua trees, around dry Koehn Lake, and through the old mining towns of Randsburg and Johannesburg before you reach the unmarked dirt road leading to the site. A...
Making Smarter Smart Homes
Via Science 2.0: CNN estimates that smart homes will grow from a $10 billion business this year to a $44 billion industry by 2017. It will happen because there will be no more thinking about Bluetooth or Wi-Fi or broadband, the smart home hub will eliminate the chaos....
Making Smarter Smart Homes
Via Science 2.0: CNN estimates that smart homes will grow from a $10 billion business this year to a $44 billion industry by 2017. It will happen because there will be no more thinking about Bluetooth or Wi-Fi or broadband, the smart home hub will eliminate the chaos....
IBM develops computer chip with a million ‘neurons’ that ‘functions like human brain’
Via Drudge and Mail Online: TrueNorth is the world’s first neurosynaptic computer chip because it can figure things out on its own. It has one million ‘neurons’ and could cram the same power as a super computer into a circuit the size of a postage stamp. ...
IBM develops computer chip with a million ‘neurons’ that ‘functions like human brain’
Via Drudge and Mail Online: TrueNorth is the world’s first neurosynaptic computer chip because it can figure things out on its own. It has one million ‘neurons’ and could cram the same power as a super computer into a circuit the size of a postage stamp. ...